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NOVANEWS New York Times , June 25, 2010 American Jews Who Reject Zionism Say Events Aid Cause http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/26/us/26religion.html?ref=middleeast By SAMUEL G. FREEDMAN One day nearly 20 years ago, Stephen Naman was preparing to help the rabbi of his Reform Jewish temple in South Carolina move the congregation into a new building. Mr. Naman had just one request: Could the rabbi stop placing the flag of Israel on the altar? “We don’t go to synagogue to pray to a flag,” Mr. Naman, 63, recalled having said in a recent telephone interview. That rabbi acceded to the request. So, after being transferred to North Carolina and joining a temple there six or seven years later, Mr. Naman asked its rabbi to remove the Israeli flag. This time, the reaction was more predictable. “The rabb...

NOVANEWS Haaretz, June 27, 2010 The wrongs committed after 1967 threaten the justice of Zionism in its entirety, while pre-'67 wrongs were wrongs of particular moves in the realization of Zionism. http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/before-and-after-1967-1.298497 By Chaim Gans  The members of a bizarre coalition of pro-settlement right-wingers (for example, the late Yosef Ben-Shlomo, and Israel Harel, long may he live ) and the anti-Zionist left (recently, Yehouda Shenhav ) are united in one claim. They hold that the Zionist left's support for the pre-1967 borders, and its sharp opposition to the settlements since, are hypocritical and inconsistent. The inconsistency, they say, is that Zionism has been settling at the Arab's expense since it began - not only since 1967. In additio...

NOVANEWS Amos Horev: Castrated Palestinian in Blood Vengeance Amos Horev, the retired IDF general, former Technion president, and chief booster of the Israeli defense industry, has a rather sordid past that many might find akin to being a terrorist, Israel-style. He is one of three panel members of the Gaza flotilla investigation and this incident, described by the inimitable Tom Segev in a 2002 Haaretz article, should shed light on the type of justice he might mete out in this inquiry: `We castrated you, Mohammed!’ In the mid-1940s, a popular song [by Haim Hefer] among the members of the Palmach was entitled “We castrated you, we castrated you, Mohammed!” [Serasnucha ya Muhammad--the Hebrew lyrics censor the word for "castration" and substitute the meaningless Saragosa in order to permit ...

NOVANEWS    Channel Two TV news demonstrates how to railroad a non-violent protest movement Didi Remez The Sheikh Jarrah protest movement pulled off an impressive demonstration on Friday (June 25 2010.) More than five hundred Israelis and Palestinians marched in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan, to protest the planned demolition of 22 Palestinian homes." Bernard Avishai has posted an interesting account of the event at TPM Café. Here's a short video clip, which shows a powerful, non-violent, protest:   Israeli TVs didn't show. Since the event was extraordinary, however, Channel Two TV News had to mention it in the evening newscast. Here's the clip: The script, delivered by aspiring politician Yair Lapid, is matter-of-fact: Some five hundred leftist activists and Palest...

NOVANEWS  [Video] Channel Ten News: Construction starts at Shepherd Hotel settlement compound in Sheikh Jarrah, East Jerusalem Didi Remez | Transcript follows video. This comes on the day of the publication of the Jerusalem Municipality Master Plan, with plans for expansion of settlement enclaves across the city. Last night, riots broke out in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan as settlers, backed by Border Police, moved to evict Palestinians from a structure used as a mosque.   Israel began today building at the Shepherd Hotel in East Jerusalem Channel Ten TV News, June 27 2010 20:31 Yaacov Elon: Very quietly Israel began construction of a new neighborhood in the Shepherd Hotel complex in East Jerusalem. Our correspondent Roi Sharon joins us directly from there. You can ...

NOVANEWS ZIONIST-LED SENATE COMMITTEE approved legislation that would “fundamentally reshape” the way the government ‘protects’ public AND private sector cyber networks.The Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, led by Chairman Joe Lieberman, a freedom-hating, Talmudic Jew, is the sponsor of this bill which would create a Cyberspace Policy Office within the White House. The bill, Protecting Cyberspace as a National Asset Act, maliciously crafted by Lieberman, would also create a new center within Homeland Security, (Talmudic Jew Lieberman at the head), which would implement cyber-security policies. This new agency within the Department of Homeland Security will be named, The National Center for Cybersecurity and Communications (NCCC). Any private company reliant on the Inter...

NOVANEWS West Midlands PSC launches BOYCOTT ISRAEL DATES CAMPAIGN 2010 Invited speakers include Lauren Booth, Survivors of Israel's deadly assault on the Marvi Marmara, including PSC Director of Campaigns Sarah Colborne, Ismael Patel Friends of Al-Aqsa, and local campaigners for boycotting Israel There will also be performances by local groups in support of the Palestinians and the campaign to boycott Israel. The event will mark the launch of Boycott Israel 2010 before the start of Ramadan in the West Midlands The event will remember the nine Turks killed by the Israeli navy on the Marvi Marmara  25, OF JULY 2010 @ 6:30 PM THE DRUM-44 POTTERS LANE-ASTON-B6 4UU

NOVANEWS 17 December 2009 Mahmoud Ab-Ass, the the Palestinian puppet , has refused to restart peace talks with Israel until all construction in the illegal settlements of the West Bank and East Jerusalem stops. This followed the public humiliation he suffered at the hands of Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, on her visit to the Middle East at the end of October. Speaking at a press conference in Jerusalem on 31 October, standing next to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, Hillary Clinton declared that stopping the continued expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank should be considered as part of resumed peace talks, and not a precondition. Praising the Zionists for making ‘unprecedented concessions’ over the issue, she said that ‘There have never been preconditions. It’s...

FRFI 207 February / March 2009 Labour friends of Zionism Throughout the war Labour was determined to show that it supported Israel whatever the opinions of the majority of people in the country. Although on 29 December Prime Minister Gordon Brown said he was ‘appalled’ by the violence, two days later he was clearly laying the blame on Hamas: ‘I call on Gazan militants to cease all rocket attacks on Israel immediately. These attacks are designed to cause random destruction and to undermine the prospects of peace talks led by President Abbas. I understand the Israeli government’s sense of obligation to its population.’ On 3 January, as Israel began its ground attack, Brown called for Israel to ‘scale back’ its attack, saying that ‘too many’ had died. On 4 January, with 480 Palestinians dead,...

NOVANEWS US paid 'journalists' to write propaganda against the Cuban Five Press Release by the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five Wednesday, June 2, 2010, National Press Club, Washington, DC Good afternoon, My name is Gloria La Riva, I am coordinator of the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five. We are here today at the National Press Club in Washington, along with Mara Verheyden-Hilliard of the Partnership for Civil Justice, Heidi Boghosian of the National Lawyers Guild, and Brian Becker of the ANSWER Coalition, to present evidence of the U.S. government’s misconduct in relation to the Cuban Five’s case, and violation of the law banning domestic propaganda. After our presentations, we will have a Question-and-Answer period. I will present first. For the first time, we are r...